Cipriani out as injuries tarnish Wasps’ victory

Dai Young must wonder when he last walked under a ladder after Danny Cipriani was one of four injury scares for Wasps’ director of rugby.

Jimmy Gopperth’s late penalty did the trick for Young’s side in a game that went down to the wire, like the one at Twickenham in May but with different winners. But Wasps’ mounting casualty list may be more significant than this win, which cut the gap to the second-placed Exeter Chiefs to four points.

Cipriani injured his achilles and, a minute later, Wasps’ promising back-rower Jack Willis was taken off clutching his shoulder. Marcus Watson, the wing, and Alex Rieder, the back-row forward, were other casualties. Rieder had been on for only six minutes, after five months out with a…